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The core stage for the first flight of NASA’s Space Launch System, or SLS, rocket is seen in the B-2 Test Stand during a scheduled 8-minute duration hot fire test, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021, at Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The four RS-25 engines fired for a little more than one minute and generated 1.6 million pounds of thrust. The hot...
Credit：NASA 2020年，美国国家航空航天局（NASA）在月球到火星探测战略方面取得了重大进展，实现了阿尔忒弥斯（Artemis）计划的任务目标，取得了能够造福于人类的重大科学进步，并恢复了美国本土的载人航天发射能力。与此同时，NASA的专门小组迅速采取了行动，协助国家抗击新型冠状病毒肺炎（COVID-19）疫情。 NASA局长吉姆·布里登斯廷（Jim Bridenstine）表示：“NASA在疫情期间表现出的韧性和毅力给全国人民留下了深刻印象。我们与美国商业伙伴一起创造了历史，作出了开创性的发现，推动了科学进步，进一步深化了航空研究和技术研发，甚至还参与了抗击COVID-19疫情的斗争。我们度过了充满挑战的一年，取得了令人难以置信的成就，并为持续的成功开辟了道路。” NASA对美国联邦政府应对COV...
Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus space freighter departs the International Space Station moments after being released from the Canadarm2 robotic arm on Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021, completing a 93-day cargo mission attached to the orbiting lab. The Cygnus spacecraft successfully departed the International Space Station three months after arriving at the space stat...
NASA astronaut Michael Hopkins tends to radish plants growing for the Plant Habitat-02 experiment, which evaluates plant growth as well as nutrition and taste of the plants. In the final two weeks of 2020, crew members aboard the International Space Station conducted dozens of scientific investigations, including studies of how plants grow in microgravity, t...
Vice President Mike Pence introduces NASA astronauts, from left, Jessica Meir, Joseph Acaba, Anne McClain, Matthew Dominick, and Jessica Watkins during a meeting of the National Space Council inside the Apollo/Saturn V Center at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida on Dec. 9, 2020. Meir, Acaba, McClain, Dominick, and Watkins are among the init...
The International Space Station is seen in this 13 second exposure as it flies over Arlington, Virginia, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020. Onboard the station are: NASA astronauts Kate Rubins, Shannon Walker, Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi; and, Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov, and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov....
JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and Expedition 64 astronaut Soichi Noguchi relaxes at the end of the work day inside the seven-windowed cupola, the International Space Station’s “window to the world.” The orbiting lab was flying above the South Pacific at the time this photograph was taken on Nov. 27, 2020. December will be a busy...
The first of 10 pieces of the twin Space Launch System (SLS) rocket boosters for NASA’s Artemis I mission was placed on the mobile launcher Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020, inside the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Engineers used one of five overhead cranes to lift the segment from the VAB’s High Bay 4 to the newly renovat...
On Monday, Nov. 16, 2020, the SpaceX Crew Dragon arrived at the International Space Station for docking, carrying NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi. In this image the Crew Dragon spacecraft was on approach to the space station and docked at 11:01 p.m. EST. Image Cre...
Watching the launch from Firing Room four in the Launch Control Center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Lee Rosen, vice president of Mission and Launch Operations at SpaceX, pats Norm Knight, deputy director of Flight Operations. At 7:27 p.m. ET, Nov. 15, 2020, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft on NASA’s ...